The Spring Festival of the Bai people does not start with the "Lapa" festival, but with the spring as the starting point. "Spring", the Bai people commonly known as the "generation of the place" [dain cvnl], meaning "playing spring", but also the summer calendar years the first season. The Bai people see spring as the end of the four times of the previous year, the beginning of the four times of the next year. Folk have "welcome spring" and "playing spring bull" custom.

On the day of spring in the old days, the county officials rate bureaucrats and gentry in dress to the countryside of the altar of the Jikji, five Xin plate (commonly known as the spring plate) and spring wine to welcome the sacrifice of the spring emperor and the Mang God, known as the "welcome spring". After the sacrifice, a symbolic whipping, commonly known as "playing spring", the Yamen to break the clay spring ox, people scramble for spring ox clay, put into the home field, in order to pray for crops to avoid insect pests, get a good harvest. "Playing spring" is completed, the white township people return home to burn incense and quietly guard, do not go out, in order to perpetuate the four seasons of peace, the Spring Festival has thus begun.

Lunar New Year's Eve for the last night of the year, the white language called "Yang Wang Ji" [yanp nga jix] or "Doo Ji Jia" [dop jit jia], that is, the Chinese New Year's Eve. Bai people regard this day as a major festival of the Spring Festival, in order to have a good holiday, known for cleanliness and hygiene of the Bai people on the 24th of Lunar New Year's Day will be dismantled and washing of bedding, clothing, and to sweep clean inside and outside the home, known as "Minato Kung" [co gonp], that is, in addition to the dust, which implies a year of bitterness and sadness to sweep away clean.

On this day, the White family will also be "sent to the stove" [sonx zop], with caramel sacrifices Zaojun Laozi, meaning that the seal mouth, and from then on to avoid speaking dirty words, gas words and unlucky words, but also sealed Zaojun Laozi's mouth, to prevent him from going to heaven to the Jade Emperor to say bad things. New Year's Eve dinner must be washed feet, folk "New Year's Eve wash feet, food and drink are catching up with the" cozy folk proverb, meaning that New Year's Eve wash feet, no matter what you do, will be more than others to catch up with the first.

New Year's Eve this day, the Bai people households have to paste the Spring Festival couplets, Spring Festival couplets to self-written self-writers for the top, rich in content, elegant and apt words to show that the family, the family style and sentiments. Where the family is not deceased that year are posted red couplets, if there is a funeral in the home is not full of three years, it is posted green or yellow couplets, to show that the Spring Festival on the dead memorial and mourning. Spring Festival couplets in the white township is very common, the level is very high, there is "family couplets, household planting flowers," said, has always had "couplets of the township" reputation, its calligraphy attainments and couplets meaning by writers Birch, Li Jun, Peng Jingwind praised as The calligraphy attainment and the meaning of the couplets have been praised by writers Bai Hua, Li Jun and Peng Jingfeng as "the first in the country".

New Year's Eve this day, the Bai people also have "planting the sky god tree" custom, residents generally have to be in the New Year's Eve this day in the patio planted a young pine or cypress, there are also planted chestnut tree, for the "God of Heaven" position; this custom was slowly lost! The role of the "God of Heaven", most of the Baijia people to the village saplings in front of the house or somewhere else, but in this day every family to plant trees in the practice has been preserved.

Lighting firecrackers is a particularly important activity of the Bai people on New Year's Eve to express the old and welcome the new. At the same time, New Year's Eve will also be the annual sacrifice, the annual sacrifice of ?± rituals mainly pig's head (to cut off the pig's tongue, to show that do not cause trouble), pig's tail, rooster, raw fish, with bean curd, monks, rice, vegetarian wine, tea, first sacrificed to the sky god, and then sacrificed to the altar of the family, the ancestors, the god of the door, the God, the God of the wells, the God of the animals. After the annual festival, the Bai people also have the custom of sealing the door, sealing the well, after sealing the door, between each family will no longer be strangers that night.

After the end of the festival, the family will gather around to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, which is not only rich, but also has certain symbols, such as pig's head meat must be equipped with a pig's tail, which means "having a head and a tail"; garlic frying konjac, which means "smooth and favorable"; braised gromwell, which means "smooth and favorable"; and braised gromwell, which means "smooth and favorable".

New Year's dinner, the younger generation to kowtow to the ancestors and elders, known as the resignation. Then drink tea and eat fruit under the lights and watch TV vigil, known as the year-end vigil. This is the end of the New Year's Eve festival.

The Spring Festival activities of the Bai people from the first day to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year mainly include: opening the gate, burning the first incense, grabbing the first water, the first day of vegetarian sacrifice, traveling, enjoying the Spring Festival couplets, going to the graves of the ancestors, paying homage to the New Year, playing the swings, inviting the spring guests, catching up with the dolls on the street, sacrificing the green girl, sacrificing the God of Heaven, making a Dragon Lantern Festival, playing the Ox Dance, and celebrating the Lantern Festival, and so on.

In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, men set off firecrackers, open the door, while opening the door while singing "open the door, in good fortune, the New Year, smooth and favorable," called open the door. By the white family members in the main family to carry firecrackers, incense and wax and offerings to the City God Temple, the main temple, and other temples, for the first incense burning, called burning incense; can compete for the first column "head incense" people, heralding the year round big hair and big prosperous. By the young men with paper incense firecrackers, to the side of the stream or spring side of the fire, draw water to drink at home, called grab the first water; who grabbed the first water, which implies a smooth start to everything.

On this day, the Bai people also fried glutinous rice flour dumplings, colorful rice dried slices, dried parsnip shoots and other vegetarian products and monks rice, vegetarian tea, vegetarian wine, to the sky god, stove god, home altar god, the door of the generations of clansmen, the well god, the god of the door one by one for the sacrifice, and then to the main temple, the Guan Yin Temple sacrifices to the Lord and Goddess of Mercy, called the vegetarian sacrifice. On this day, except for housewives, everyone goes out for a trip; when going out, one should choose a favorable direction and stick a vertical paper strip with the words "Going out for good luck" on it, in order to have a safe year.

From the second day of the Lunar New Year, every family can go to the grave sweeping, ancestor worship; you can also play the tooth festival, to the God of Wealth, to the God of Wealth offerings to show that the "catch" wealth; you can also invite the spring guests, banquets for the newlyweds, close friends and relatives and old friends from around the world to eat a banquet; you can also sing the opera, playing blow blow cavity, playing cattle dance, appreciate the Spring Festival, etc., a variety of athletic and recreational activities; the most important of all, the most important thing is that the family is the most important thing is that the family is the most important thing. A variety of competitive recreational activities; of course, the most lively or to worship the first month, that is, to pay tribute to the New Year. First of all, the family worship, that is, a family of elders to the elders of the New Year, and then to the five service within the close relatives of the elders of the New Year, and finally to the five service outside the in-laws of the elders and friends and relatives of the elders of the New Year.

The gifts brought to the New Year's Eve are generally bait, brown sugar, cigarettes, tea, four-color gift and so on; the newlyweds must bring patty cake and happy fruit. Where to pay homage to the New Year, in addition to treating sweet tea, bitter tea, fruits, popcorn, rice candy, eight bowls of feasts, the elders should give the children of the "New Year's money". In the meantime, the first to the fourth breakfast food have certain rules: the first day to eat glutinous rice and brown sugar pancakes, the second day to eat bait silk, the third day to eat snacks, the fourth day to eat "cattle roll" (glutinous rice cakes cooked in water, dipped in fried oatmeal noodles and brown sugar, layers stacked on top of each other, a special food), the fourth day after the food can be eaten casually. The first to the fourth day of the food, five services within the heat to be given to each other to show affection for their families.

Jianchuan Bai people in the New Year, the most distinctive, the most rich local ethnic characteristics is to catch the "doll street", "Green Girl Festival" and "Sydney flower will"